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lower tributaries. Besides the Bule, the Jed,- and the 

 Ale, it gives command of the Oxnam, and allows of a 

 stretch to the Kale. The Oxnam enters the Teviot 

 from the same side, about two miles below the con- 

 fluence of the Jed. It is a small stream, and is not, 

 we believe, much distinguished amongst the anglers 

 of the district. Not so the Kale, however, the next 

 and last tributary which the Teviot receives. Its 

 trouts are numerous, of fair size, and of excellent qua- 

 lity. At Morebattle, about five miles from its mouth, 

 there is a decent public-house, called the Templehall 

 Inn, which is kept by a thoroughly original old 

 Scotch " ale-wife." Her parlour has two cleanly beds. 

 The upper part of the Kale may be most conveniently 

 fished from Hounam, where the angler will find ac- 

 commodation at either of the village inns. The lower 

 part may be reached readily from either the Eoxburgh, 

 the Old Ormiston, or the Nisbet station on the Jed- 

 burgh line, and the angler will find it a pretty hard 

 day's work to fish thence up to Hounam, missing all 

 the woody places, there being plenty of water with 

 grassy banks. The head of the Bowmont is within 

 reach of Hounam, by a bridle-path over the hills. 

 Above Yetholm, however, the Bowmont is a shallow 

 stream, in which there are few big trouts, although 

 small ones are very plentiful. Below Yetholm there 

 are pools and deep runs, and the trout are larger and 

 finer. 



Below Mounteviot, when salmon were more plentiful 

 than they are now, there were several casts in the 

 Teviot where a number of fish were got with the rod 

 every year. A favourable autumn flood always brings 



